11 Noteworthy Albums From 2005

Here’s a top 11 list for 2005 in no particular order because I don’t
believe in order, just disorder.  And I do not even want to call
this a ‘top’ list because that would infer some sort of order which is
not my purpose here.

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  Sam Prekop, Whose Your New Professor, “Something”
  
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  Broken Social Scene, S/T, “Fire-Eyed Boy”
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  Etienne de Rocher, S/T, “Meditation # C.O.B.”
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  Stephen Malkmus, Face the Truth, “Baby C’mon”
  
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  American Watercolor Movement, And the Maps Came Down, “I Paparazzi”
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  Low, The Great Destroyer, California
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  Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze, “Little Sister”
• 
  The Double, Loose in the Air,  “Idiocy”
• Wilco, Kicking Television : Live in Chicago, “Handshake Drugs” (not the live version)
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  Smog, A River Aint Too Much to Love, “I Feel Like I’m the Mother of the World”
• Deerhoof, The Runners Four, “Wrong Time Capsule”
• Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise, “Chicago”